Bringing some weed over to a friend's house isn't the same thing as getting caught by the California Highway Patrol with $120,000 worth of cocaine -- unless you're the law. Both acts can be charged as " transporting ." Lawmakers in Sacramento are ...
Illustration by Audrey Fukuman. Twenty-eight miles west of the Golden Gate Bridge, a strange, two-faced figure patrolled the outermost scrap of land in San Francisco. Granted, this was a strange time, and San Francisco, the teeming benefic...
Many contests elicit entries by promising the chance of a lifetime. This one can truly deliver. Bay Area residents of a certain age have, for years, been receiving cards of a most peculiar sort from the Trident Society. Next to an image of a happ...
San Francisco talks a good game on greenhouse-gas reduction. But, alas, talking generates carbon dioxide. And carbon dioxide is a greenhouse gas. A draft report presented earlier this month to the Environment Commission revealed that the city has...
Blogger Chris Vizzini thought he was fighting for the little guy when he trademarked the term "gaymer" in 2008, two years after launching his website, Gaymer.org . Traditionally, the word had been a pejorative directed at gay video game nerds. It d...
To an outsider, Scott "BIGRED" Farrell might seem an unlikely savior for the Lusty Lady strip club in North Beach. Yet the 41-year-old, erstwhile management consultant enjoys rattling off his credentials. He's a motorcycle aficionado, wannabe cop, a...
An uncle in Brooklyn used to take furtive joy in scouring the airwaves for Crazy Eddie discount electronics commercials. These featured a manic gent who produced sounds resembling speech and attempting to impart a message that, ultimately, came down...
Two weeks ago, 24-year-old Amelie Le Moullac died when she collided with a big rig in SOMA. She isn't the first cyclist to be killed in that neighborhood this year: Dylan Mitchell, 21, was struck and killed by a garbage truck as he pedaled along 16t...
Boobs in Space "Go Topless Day," an annual media stunt taking advantage of everyone's fascination with the female chest, is in fact a public relations ploy for a bizarre UFO cult devoted to building an intergalactic Jerusalem "embassy" in pre...
Public Transportation Pitfall Public transportation needs to think about sustainability: Thanks to Joe Eskenazi for shining the light (so to speak) on Muni and encouraging more efficient and safer operations ["Sleepless Train," Your Humble Na...
Tomorrow, the Bay Bridge closes for five days, which means you are stuck cramming onto mass transit with pretty much every single person who lives in the Bay Area. And we're not going to sugar coat it: The next five days of your life is going to su...
No, not that plague . This was the plague of "higher taxes, crushing regulation and centralized government ... it is still the liberal welfare state and we want no part of it." Whew . Robertson's public utterances seem to have grown steadily...
Great to have @RizKhanShows as our very first @Uber_Dubai rider! pic.twitter.com/hP2JNmX2ey -- Andrew Noyes (@anoyes) August 27, 2013 Just days after receiving a $258 million gift card from Google Ventures and TPG, the San Francisco c...
There's something about the sight of a historic streetcar rumbling through San Francisco that puts a spring in your step. They're oozing with character , in stark contrast to the drab uniformity of modern transit . Their laconic pace recalls a time...
On June 24, at about 1 p.m., a 19-year-old JaQuan Rice and his 17-year-old girlfriend were sitting a a Muni bus stop at Middle Point and West Point roads in the Bayview when they were gunned down for unknown reasons. Rice died while the female teen...
perceived . That's why when Mark Zuckerberg announced his Internet.org project to connect people in developing countries to the Internet, he felt compelled to make it sound like a charity run by an NGO, complete with the ".org" domain and all kin...
This is what happens when Bernal Heights' drivers miss a dose of Prozac. Alas, the Bernalwood Press bring us news and entertainment of more parking drama from the Bernal Heights hamlet, where drivers reportedly ganged up on an Oregon driver pric...
Firefighters claim they're finally getting somewhere with this massive blaze that's burning through one of the most beautiful spots in California. The Associated Press reported early this morning that, for the first time in over a week, firefi...
New Yorker article , waxing nostalgic about orchards and Eichler homes even as he documented the dissolute lifestyles of today's newly minted tech elite. Shortly thereafter, Salon writer Andrew Leonard was chiding the Valley's innovators for their...
But Facebook, which now mediates a frightening portion of our normal social exchanges, made the practice of cyber-stalking even more commonplace. Not only that -- it became the medium in which people consecrate relationships. A romance is but a flame...
Vicente Fox is losing daylight. And as the sun slips away over the dome of San Francisco City Hall, the former president of Mexico is also losing his patience. About 45 minutes… More >>
In the days of yore, "More Doctors Smoke Camels than Any Other Cigarette" was cutting-edge advertising copy. But that pitch has aged worse than those doctors' lungs. Now, at U.C.… More >>
Former state Assemblyman and San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown is known as a master of navigating around rules. His new namesake, the 77-year-old western span of the Bay Bridge, will… More >>
If you're in the game of connecting folks with money (and no desire to leave home) with merchandise, the world is your burrito. Enter Postmates. Labeling itself the "Uber of Stuff,"… More >>
About a month before her death in May of 2010, Jane Warner was visited by a uniformed police officer armed with a sheaf of legal papers. They were formal misconduct… More >>
Nestled among the tall eucalypti that populate Visitation Valley's McLaren Park is one of the weirdest and trickiest municipal golf courses you're ever likely to see. It's abutted by housing… More >>
On Saturday, Aug. 17, at around 9 a.m., immigration officials knocked on the door of a squat, two-tone apartment block in the Presidio. Moshe Hakim, an unassuming 56-year-old Israeli, was… More >>
Sidewalk Chalk Politics Occupy SF has resurfaced, this time camping out at City Hall, where it's reportedly giving Mayor Ed Lee a really hard time. The San Francisco Examiner noted that… More >>
Editor's Note You know the story of Lincoln's ax? Over years of mythic, presidential use, first the head and then the handle were replaced, which begs the question: Is it the… More >>
An exclusive social network for cops, which will launch in New York, San Francisco, and Los Angeles this October, is drawing skepticism from lawyers and free-speech advocates who question its… More >>